The milestones of my boys – reaching 2 years and 6 months respectively, recently – has of course, as these things go, turned my mind to my own father. He passed away when I was in my late teens, as I’ve written before, both here and at another blog. What I’ve been realising lately though, is [...]

It’s happened again – I was just hanging around and being normal, when the dad joke gene kicked in and I let another doozy out. It wasn’t intentional… really. Here’s what happened: My wife and I were putting Leo to bed, when she started talking about what they were doing tomorrow. E’lise mentioned to Leo [...]

We took our first family holiday as a foursome this weekend – our first time away just the four of us. We stayed in Healesville and went to the Sanctuary. It was only an overnight trip, but we had a wonderful day in and enjoyed the break together.

I’ve been spending a lot of my commuting time lately thinking about the amount of time I spend with my kids, and how best to balance that against my requirement to provide for them, through making a success of my career and my personal self.

It’s time for a confession – I am quite behind on content for this little website and no matter how much I keep putting sticky notes around my desk, I won’t ever find a full day where I can write solidly and catch up on everything.

Our boy was born 6 months ago today. What an amazing time it has been.

6 months… it’s gone so quick, and in other ways, feel like it’s been a long time coming. When I think back to the experiences and challenges we’ve faced, it seems a little implausible that they’re all crammed into a 6 month period. But they are, and here we are.

Leo said his first word this morning, unexpectedly really; it caught us off guard. He was in his cot and his mother was tidying up his room a bit and he wanted to be picked up, when all of a sudden he came out with, “Mum”!